The 2024 Armchair Dragoons Fall Assembly will be held 11-13 October 2024 at The Gamer's Armory in Cary, NC (outside of Raleigh)
Recent Posts
11
The Modern World / Re: Warfighter Vietnam
« Last post by JudgeDredd on Today at 01:49:19 AM »I'm a bit like that. When I bought PMC, I bought all the additional add ons. Cost me a wee fortune
Also, as I mentioned, and I found this out with PMC, they've left stuff out the main game. It is essentially "bare bones".
Good marketing strategy if you don't chase people away.
Also, as I mentioned, and I found this out with PMC, they've left stuff out the main game. It is essentially "bare bones".
Good marketing strategy if you don't chase people away.
12
Pre-Gunpowder / Re: Crusader Kings III Announced
« Last post by Martok on Yesterday at 07:09:19 PM »Good to see things appear to be progressing nicely for the Dutch. Bit of a coup getting Columbus in your employ!
Will your forces stop at East Fresia, though? I wonder.
Will your forces stop at East Fresia, though? I wonder.
13
The Modern World / Re: Warfighter Vietnam
« Last post by Grim.Reaper on Yesterday at 06:13:25 PM »Something I was originally interested in but I am the type of person that needs all the expansions and this is a little steep for me:)
14
The Modern World / Re: New projects: Poland 39 and Afrika Korps 41
« Last post by bob48 on Yesterday at 04:45:53 PM »Excellent - I hope to be trying it out soon :-)
15
The Modern World / Re: New projects: Poland 39 and Afrika Korps 41
« Last post by Trafalgar Editions on Yesterday at 04:27:11 PM »Hi !!
I leave you a link with some example turns from the Poland 39 game
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=trafalgar+ediciones
I leave you a link with some example turns from the Poland 39 game
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=trafalgar+ediciones
16
The Modern World / A Desperate Picture – Paint it Black: The Attack on Lang Lei – February 6-7, 196
« Last post by bayonetbrant on Yesterday at 02:33:35 PM »A Desperate Picture – Paint it Black: The Attack on Lang Lei – February 6-7, 1968
https://www.armchairdragoons.com/articles/reviews/paintitblack/
Quote
The card draw game mechanism delivers tension filled turns where fortune is fleeting and both players are challenged to act to keep their forces on the knife-edge of victory…or fall into inglorious defeat. For such a low complexity wargame I am very pleasantly surprised at the tension in each and every turn.
https://www.armchairdragoons.com/articles/reviews/paintitblack/
17
Pre-Gunpowder / Re: Crusader Kings III Announced
« Last post by Metaldog on Yesterday at 01:57:20 PM »It's been a minute since I played, and things may have changed, but, west to South America is most likely much easier than around the Cape and east to India. Just a suggestion. And wasn't there a Dutch Guinea along with a British and French in South America?
18
The Modern World / Warfighter Vietnam
« Last post by JudgeDredd on Yesterday at 12:53:01 PM »I see DVG have 13 add-on packs available for Warfighter Vietnam 
And from what I gather, it's very slim on content anyway. I watched Gimpy Gamer talking about it. Though he still loved it as I recall.
£333.30 if you want it all.
And from what I gather, it's very slim on content anyway. I watched Gimpy Gamer talking about it. Though he still loved it as I recall.
£333.30 if you want it all.
19
History and Tall Tales / Re: This Day in History
« Last post by besilarius on Yesterday at 10:15:17 AM »1571 Agosto Barbarigo, Venetian admiral, kia, Lepanto, Giovanni Contarini, Venetian admiral, Orazio Orsini, Patrician of Naples & Venice, Virginio Orsini, Patrician of Naples & Venice, his brother, plus 15 other Venetian captains, and c. 7,500 Italian & Spanish soldiers, marines, & sailors, as well as Ali Pasha and Mohammed Scirocco, Turkish admirals, and c. 80,000 Turkish soldiers, marines, & sailors
1870 Leon Gambetta escaped Prussian besieged Paris aboard the balloon "Armand-Barbès" --
Shortly after the Prussians invested Paris, during the Franco-Prussian War, the French resorted to the use of balloons to carry passengers, mail, and some specialized cargoes from the besieged city to the provinces. At least 66 balloons were lofted, including one that brought Leon Gambetta out on October 8, so that he could help organize new armies in the provinces that attempted to liberate the "City of Light." Attempts to make return trips to Paris by balloon proved uniformly unsuccessful, but pigeons were used to carry correspondence into the city, using a special photographic process that reduced the documents to microscopic size.
The Prussian Army considered the balloons a very serious problem. Not only were they being used to reconnoiter the siege lines, but they enabled the besieged to coordinate their break-out efforts with the French armies still in the field. In addition, the balloons had caught the imagination of many people in neutral countries, raising sympathy for the French.
So the Prussians decided they needed a way to destroy the balloons. Now there had been earlier efforts at creating anti-balloon weapons. After all, the French had introduced the use of balloons in warfare during the 1790s. Hot air balloons, and later hydrogen balloons, had seen considerable use over the following decades, as recently as during the Lombardy-Venetia War (1859), the American Civil War (1861-1865), and even the Paraguayan War (1866-1869). Nor had efforts to develop weapons that could destroy aerostats (i.e., "balloons") lagged long behind their introduction. But these had been improvised weapons, usually light artillery pieces mounted on special carriages. That would not do for the Prussian Army. In typical Prussian fashion, what the they wanted was a proper anti-balloon gun. So specifications were issued, bids received, and in a surprisingly short time, a contract was granted to the Krupp Works.
In an equally surprisingly short time, within weeks in fact, Krupp came up with a workable weapon, the Ballonabwehrkanone. The Ballonabwehrkanone was a rifled 36-mm (1.4-inch) breech loading gun. Mounted on a special carriage that made moving it easier than a normal artillery piece, it had a 360-degree traverse, and could be elevated to 85-degrees. The Ballonabwehrkanone, the first purpose-built anti-aircraft weapon in history, achieved only one "kill," when it brought down the balloon Daguerre just west of Paris on November 12, 1870.
1870 Leon Gambetta escaped Prussian besieged Paris aboard the balloon "Armand-Barbès" --
Shortly after the Prussians invested Paris, during the Franco-Prussian War, the French resorted to the use of balloons to carry passengers, mail, and some specialized cargoes from the besieged city to the provinces. At least 66 balloons were lofted, including one that brought Leon Gambetta out on October 8, so that he could help organize new armies in the provinces that attempted to liberate the "City of Light." Attempts to make return trips to Paris by balloon proved uniformly unsuccessful, but pigeons were used to carry correspondence into the city, using a special photographic process that reduced the documents to microscopic size.
The Prussian Army considered the balloons a very serious problem. Not only were they being used to reconnoiter the siege lines, but they enabled the besieged to coordinate their break-out efforts with the French armies still in the field. In addition, the balloons had caught the imagination of many people in neutral countries, raising sympathy for the French.
So the Prussians decided they needed a way to destroy the balloons. Now there had been earlier efforts at creating anti-balloon weapons. After all, the French had introduced the use of balloons in warfare during the 1790s. Hot air balloons, and later hydrogen balloons, had seen considerable use over the following decades, as recently as during the Lombardy-Venetia War (1859), the American Civil War (1861-1865), and even the Paraguayan War (1866-1869). Nor had efforts to develop weapons that could destroy aerostats (i.e., "balloons") lagged long behind their introduction. But these had been improvised weapons, usually light artillery pieces mounted on special carriages. That would not do for the Prussian Army. In typical Prussian fashion, what the they wanted was a proper anti-balloon gun. So specifications were issued, bids received, and in a surprisingly short time, a contract was granted to the Krupp Works.
In an equally surprisingly short time, within weeks in fact, Krupp came up with a workable weapon, the Ballonabwehrkanone. The Ballonabwehrkanone was a rifled 36-mm (1.4-inch) breech loading gun. Mounted on a special carriage that made moving it easier than a normal artillery piece, it had a 360-degree traverse, and could be elevated to 85-degrees. The Ballonabwehrkanone, the first purpose-built anti-aircraft weapon in history, achieved only one "kill," when it brought down the balloon Daguerre just west of Paris on November 12, 1870.
20
Pre-Gunpowder / Re: Crusader Kings III Announced
« Last post by Undercovergeek on Yesterday at 08:23:28 AM »The explorer and his fleet are sent south, round Castile and beyond morocco, past the canaries and on to the west coast of Africa, our target destination is arguin - the furthest colony we can reach with our current colonial range to establish a base there and then press on to South Africa and the Indies
At home all efforts are pressed into increasing our diplomacy power to help increase our colonial reach
Eventually our relationship score passes the required mark to diplo annex Utrecht and the wheels are set in motion - we should annex them just as east fresias truce expires. All our other provinces flourish in this brief moment of peace, they’re all developing with improvements. A new brush with England via more Burgundian unsettlement tells us the Dutch navy is now 17% more powerful than the English but their army is twice ours - eventually there will be war between the two but not yet……. Not yet
An unknown explorer by the name of Christopher Columbus comes to our court unhappy with his treatment by the Italians and Portuguese and asks for our sponsorship in his endeavours - he is made the captain of our colonial fleet and instantly helps out with our crippling attrition so far from home
Utrecht is absorbed into the growing Dutch lands and our forces head for east fresia - the last piece of the Netherlands jigsaw
At home all efforts are pressed into increasing our diplomacy power to help increase our colonial reach
Eventually our relationship score passes the required mark to diplo annex Utrecht and the wheels are set in motion - we should annex them just as east fresias truce expires. All our other provinces flourish in this brief moment of peace, they’re all developing with improvements. A new brush with England via more Burgundian unsettlement tells us the Dutch navy is now 17% more powerful than the English but their army is twice ours - eventually there will be war between the two but not yet……. Not yet
An unknown explorer by the name of Christopher Columbus comes to our court unhappy with his treatment by the Italians and Portuguese and asks for our sponsorship in his endeavours - he is made the captain of our colonial fleet and instantly helps out with our crippling attrition so far from home
Utrecht is absorbed into the growing Dutch lands and our forces head for east fresia - the last piece of the Netherlands jigsaw